Beating baby elephants
This just in from our newest blogger, Jim Gaines, who doesn't have an account set up yet so I'm posting for him.
PETA says that Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s Circus beats baby elephants. We’re still waiting to hear directly from the circus’ parent company, but they’ve denied to the Washington Post that the pictures being waved by the animal-rights group are as they seem.
PETA has the testimony and photos of Sam Haddock, who shot the above and a whole bunch of others. Haddock used to work at the elephant breeding-and-training facility in Polk City. Haddock, who recently died, said he saw baby elephants yanked from their mothers and tormented into performing popular tricks. His accusations were shown off Wednesday at a press conference in Orlando.
Comments on this story:
Anonymous said:
Bob Whitby sucks my ass. Orlando Weekly sucks.
posted on: 12/16/2009 5:21:59 PM
Anonymous said:
5:21, why do you read the Weekly if you hate it so much? Its not like its getting delivered to you...in fact you are going online directly to the blog...so why? If you dont like it, dont read it. Easy Breezy!
posted on: 12/16/2009 5:34:02 PM
Anonymous said:
I'll bet this picture is from some routine health procedure they do to keep the animal healthy. Of course they have to restrain the animal for health procedures....as is the case for all animals. No evidence of the animal being beaten. Not sure how tying up an animal and beating it would "train" it to do anything.
posted on: 12/20/2009 11:06:30 AM
Bob Whitby said:
To the first commenter: Nice to see you again, Rick Namey. How are Biteboy's fortunes these days?
posted on: 12/30/2009 4:45:21 PM
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